Progress in Geomathematics (eBook)

Graeme Bonham-Carter, Cheng Qiuming (Herausgeber)

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2008
XVI, 554 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-69496-0 (ISBN)

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Celebrating Frits Agterberg's half-century of publication activity in geomathematics, this volume's 28 timely papers, written by his friends and colleagues, treat a variety of subjects of current interest, many of them also studied by Frits, including: spatial analysis in mineral resource assessment, quantitative stratigraphy, nonlinear multifractal models, compositional data analysis, time series analysis, image analysis, and geostatistics. Professor Agterberg published his first paper as a graduate student in 1958 and has since produced (and continues to publish) a steady stream of research papers on a wide variety of subjects of interest to geomathematical practitioners. Most of the papers included here address methodology and feature practical case studies, so that the book likely has broad appeal to those interested in mathematical geosciences, both to academic researchers seeking a comprehensive overview and also to practitioners of geomathematical approaches in industry.

Graeme Bonham-Carter, who retired from the Geological Survey of Canada, has published extensively on computer methods in the geosciences. His two textbooks 'Computer Simulation in Geology' (Wiley, 1970, with John Harbaugh) and 'Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS' (Pergamon, 1994) have been widely used and cited. He was Editor in Chief of Computers & Geosciences for 11 years.

Qiuming Cheng is Professor at York University (Toronto) and Director of State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources at China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. He has published extensively on spatial analysis, GIS, fractal and multifractal models, spatial decision support

Inhalt

Contents 6
List of Contributors 9
Introduction 14
The Role of Frederik Pieter Agterberg in the Development of Geomathematics 18
Another Look at the Chemical Relationships in the Dissolved Phase of Complex River Systems 35
A Critical Approach to Probability Laws in Geochemistry 50
Investigation of the Structure of Geological Process Through Multivariate Statistical Analysis — The Creation of a Coal 64
Master of the Obscure—Automated Geostatistical Classification in Presence of Complex Geophysical Processes 89
The Rapid Retreat of Jakobshavns Isbræ, West Greenland: Field Observations of 2005 and Structural Analysis of its Evolution 122
Spatiotemporal Continuity of Sequential Rain Suggested by 3- D Variogram 140
Anisotropic Scaling Models of Rock Density and the Earth’s Surface Gravity Field 160
Non-linear Theory and Power-Law Models for Information Integration and Mineral Resources Quantitative Assessments 203
Mineral Potential Modelling for the Greater Nahanni Ecosystem Using GIS Based Analytical Methods 234
Map Scale Effects on Estimating the Number of Undiscovered Mineral Deposits 277
Are Fractal Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Mineral Deposits Meaningful? 290
African Neoproterozoic Mineral Deposits and Pan African Metallogenesis 307
On Blind Tests and Spatial Prediction Models 318
Strip Transect Sampling to Estimate Object Abundance in Homogeneous and Non- Homogeneous Poisson Fields: A Simulation Study of the Effects of Changing Transect Width and Number 336
Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part I 355
Increasing Resolution in Exploration Biostratigraphy – Part II 370
RASC/CASC: Example of Creative Application of Statistics in Geology 380
Euclidean Distances and Singular Value Decomposition: Useful Tools for Geometric Morphometrics in Biology and Paleontology 394
A Note on Seasonal Variation in Radiolarian Abundance 417
Application of Markov Mean First-Passage Time Statistics to Sedimentary Successions: A Pennsylvanian Case- Study from the Illinois Basin 435
The Beta Distribution for Categorical Variables at Different Support 444
Enhancement of Seafloor Maps for Mecklenburg Bay, Baltic Sea, Using Proxy Variables 456
Statistical Analysis of Physiographic and Structural Directional Data in the U.S. Midcontinent ( Kansas) 480
Cross-Wavelet Analysis: A Tool for Detection of Relationships Between Paleoclimate Proxy Records 498
On Correlational Properties for Volcanic Earthquakes Associated with Asamayama ( Japan), 1983 – 2005 511
Crosscorrelation of Sea Levels 526
Diversion of Flooding Rivers to Residual Mining Open Pits 532
A Christmas Parking Lot Problem 542

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 554 p. 308 illus., 25 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Compositional data anlaysis • Data Analysis • Frits Agterberg • geomathematics • Geostatistics • Image Analysis • Multifractals • Nonlinear models • Statistics
• ISBN-10: 3-540-69496-X / 354069496X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-69496-0 / 9783540694960